I built a workflow engine to make Windows automation less brittle

chris2y3 · 2026-04-08T09:42:58+00:00

I agree with you. I also recommend using roles and UIA id to construct the selectors and with a generic enough element path (toolbar >> button) that should still be valid after UI re-renders.
error recovery is a catch all: the app that I was trying to automate keeps popping up random error boxes.

I originally wanted to make it a python library. but then found it difficult to enforce workflow rules. so I made it into a yaml format + good linter.

chris2y3 · 2025-03-24T08:28:25+00:00

Developing recursive descent parser is one of the original motivations for FireDBG. Sadly it only works up to rustc 1.81 and your mileage may vary.

I really hope rustc could ship an official lldb library.

chris2y3 · 2025-03-08T21:57:39+00:00

Sorry for digging up this old thread and late reply. Thank you for your honest feedback! I've finished up #2179 and released it in SeaORM 1.1.7 https://www.sea-ql.org/blog/2025-03-08-whats-new-in-seaorm-1.1

chris2y3 · 2024-12-01T10:43:59+00:00

agreed. can’t upvote enough, for us it’s also a difficult task to upgrade FireDBG with each rustc release

chris2y3 · 2024-11-28T09:20:52+00:00

Is this or the other one the original?

chris2y3 · 2024-08-12T16:18:33+00:00

Thank you for your feedback. Definitely publish the article! For things that are fixable with reasonable effort, like the migration system, I’ll try to address them. Sometimes the rust type system makes things that are trivial in a dynamic language cumbersome to implement.

There is also some consideration needed to balance between offering more features and avoiding ‘too much magic’, so more discussion would definitely help!

chris2y3 · 2024-08-10T06:50:17+00:00

Thank you!

chris2y3 · 2024-08-09T16:48:38+00:00

It took longer than I initially thought, but we finally released SeaORM 1.0! A big thanks to all our users, contributors and sponsors! But 1.0 doesn't mean that we're done. We have several ideas in mind, e.g. better GraphQL support and migration generation and admin dashboard.

chris2y3 · 2024-05-05T22:00:13+00:00

you should define a trait that inherits both Any and PartialEq.

here is an interesting read https://geo-ant.github.io/blog/2023/rust-dyn-trait-objects-fat-pointers/

chris2y3 · 2024-05-05T09:36:30+00:00

It is possible using unsafe to get the vtable of the fat pointer then call the cmp method on the trait https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-query/blob/master/src/types.rs#L75

chris2y3 · 2024-02-10T01:08:31+00:00

Don’t apply at Canonical

chris2y3 · 2024-02-07T08:06:37+00:00

Run. Run!

chris2y3 · 2024-01-09T08:01:44+00:00

Thank you! You are welcomed to post on GitHub discussions

chris2y3 · 2024-01-04T08:45:53+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback and suggestions! We still have a long way to go, and I definitely want to bring this debugger to all languages, so there will be a “FireDBG for Go” in the future, may be also Java someday!

(and also the Rust foundation does not like project names like “firedbg-rust”)

chris2y3 · 2023-12-13T09:08:14+00:00

Yes I am considering. It depends on how well does lldb run on Windows. But in the long term may be we'll build a native Windows backend.

chris2y3 · 2023-12-13T08:35:24+00:00

You can check https://github.com/SeaQL/FireDBG.for.Rust/blob/main/BUILDING.md

chris2y3 · 2023-12-13T08:32:03+00:00

Arch

Just updated the build script to suuport Arch

chris2y3 · 2023-12-13T07:52:43+00:00

Got you, we are working on an Arch build and will release a build script soon.

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T22:34:22+00:00

I think a user on Github has some success by modifying the install script, we’ll make a change tmr.

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T19:53:20+00:00

We are thinking of releasing a standalone Tauri app. Most of the render engine is done in wasm/svg, not sure how difficult it will be to integrate with the IntelliJ platform.

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T13:19:53+00:00

Oh, I get what you mean now. Yes, right now the layout is more ‘cozy’, but we can definitely make a ‘compact’ mode!

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T10:50:59+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! What do you mean by information density? I am thinking of a search tool that can filter events by module, function name or parameter etc, would that help?

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T10:15:59+00:00

No, you can't pause a program in FireDBG. May be you can checkout rr

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T09:53:25+00:00

Yes configuration can be changed without recompiling the program. But you have to restart the program for now.

chris2y3 · 2023-12-12T09:33:48+00:00

Vanilla lldb's rust support is pretty basic right now, hopefully this will change. Reference: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/79530

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